Word: novel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Koestler's novel an Arab effendi sums up the Palestine Arab attitude: "I care not for their hospitals and their schools. This is our country, you understand! We want no foreign benefactors. We want not to be patronized. We want to be left alone, you understand! We want to live our own way and we want no foreign teachers and no foreign money and no foreign habits and no smiles of condescension and no pat on the shoulder and no arrogance and no shameless women with wiggling buttocks in our holy places. We want not their honey...
...from Cape Ann to the Barbary Coast without a second's worry about the finer points of literary art and navigation. Author Jennings, who wrote 1939's best-selling Next to Valour (TIME, June 12, 1939), is an old hand: he knows how to cram a historical novel full to bursting with blood, sweat and tears, and can wield both cutlass and bobby-pin with sangfroid...
...Since then [publication of his first novel] I've never done an honest day's work. Writing novels is an easy life-don't let any writer tell you how hard...
...thousand and one niceties of refinement with which this avid acquirer of hot platters has seen fit to burden his and other people's lives, one could write a fair sized novel, but that isn't the most interesting part of it all. What really excites the imagination and stirs the blood is the fact that such a person walks the streets unmanacled, breathes the free air and during his lucid moments actually holds a position of responsibility in our society. As a matter of fact, there are many such. You meet people like him every...
...rest room, but in spots the book is good slapstick satire and funny in a broad Broadway way. By the end, with the help of a Runyonesque assortment of low characters, including an outfielder and a lady wrestler, Author Smith somehow manages to make it into something resembling a novel. Cat lovers may have their doubts...